The author's main objective is to think the work relationships among slaveholders, slaves, peasants, administrators and foremen, in Southwest coffee farms, in the last decades of the slavery. Thereby, those social relationships are analyzed through two case studies; one of the most important topic is the conflict between free and slaves in formation of the alliances towards justice and work social rules, either being interrupts, or being restated in permanent social conflict.
Anthropology of slavery; emancipation; slave's politics; sociability in the farms